[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: busybox, sh and $HOME

[From: william maddler]

Zoran Kolic wrote:
>> That was what I did first. But then I noticed the "odd" beahviour ($HOME
>> always pointing to /home/user, instead of what stated in /etc/passwd).
> 
> Maybe you should change $HOME for your shell. Variable is the old one.

I'm not exactly a newbie ;)

I'd be *happy* to do that... BUT... where? Since xterm will "prevent"
.profile from being used? ;)

> 
>> I understand that xterm is not a login shell, that's fine, but *why* not
>> handling the correct $HOME? This sounds kinda strange to me.
> 
> Xterm is app. Shell is invoked from it.

Yes, the *point* is that xterm starts a non login session